Maybe this is just what happens when you elect a black guy who’s whiter than most white people as President of the NAACP.
Maybe this is just what happens when you elect a black guy who’s whiter than most white people as President of the NAACP.
NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous admits that “a grave mistake was made” right under his nose when advertising inserts were placed only in White newspapers on the eve of the organization’s annual image awards, which aired March 4. Danny Bakewell, chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a federation of more than 200 Black-owned newspapers, is demanding justice.
Ben Jealous, the whitest black man in history, is President of the NAACP
“If the NAACP desires to advertise with the White press, they need to understand and experience the repercussions of going outside of their ‘house’ (The Black Press). The NAACP needs to know that by ignoring the Black Press they are ‘cutting off their nose to spite their face,’” Bakewell said in a March 7 letter to NNPA publishers, obtained by the Trice Edney News Wire. “We have marched side by side with them and been their voice in the African American community. It is truly disheartening to be on the battlefield with someone and not be able to share in the spoils.”
Share in the spoils? Let’s go to freedictionary.com to see if “spoils” means what we think it means:
a. Goods or property seized from a victim after a conflict, especially after a military victory.
b. Incidental benefits reaped by a winner, especially political patronage enjoyed by a successful party or candidate.
Yup, that’s what we thought it meant. We’re just surprised that Bakewell admits publicly that the NAACP is all about reaping benefits from political patronage.
So much for the old kid’s riddle, “What’s black and white and read all over?”
Now, thanks to the wonders of 21st century race relations, we discover newspapers are either black or white, but not both.
Does color really matter any more when America’s first black president was white and its second black president is half white and the president of the NAACP is whiter than most white people and 50% of America’s white people apparently spend 50% their time in tanning salons trying to get darker?
Here’s a question for you. Does the National Association for the Advancement of Color People still serve any real purpose?
Ben Jealous, President of the NAALCP (National Association for the Advancement of Light Colored People)
Does color really matter any more when America’s first black president was white and its second black president is half white and the president of the NAACP is whiter than most white people and 50% of America’s white people apparently spend 50% their time in tanning salons trying to get darker?
Ben Jealous, President of the NAACP, is as white as – you’ll pardon the expression – a sheet. He looks like he should be President of the National Association for the Advancement of Sort of Vaguely Colored People. Get thee to a tanning salon and don’t worry about Obama’s new 10% tanning tax, Ben, because your pasty pallor and lack of melanin must be wreaking havoc with your street cred.
On one hand, it looks like Benjamin could use a little more time in a tanning salon. And these celebrities, on the other hand, look like they could use a little less. Because something just doesn’t compute when a bunch of white people are darker than the President of the NAACP.
1. Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Darker than Ben Jealous.
2. Sometimes actor George Hamilton. Darker than Ben Jealous.
3. Jersey Shore Guido “The Situation.” Darker than Ben Jealous.
4. Speaker of the House John Boehner. Darker than Ben Jealous.
What we have here is a basic contradiction between what NAACP President Ben Jealous said on Thursday and what he said earlier in the week. Damn inconvenient videos.
What we have here is a basic contradiction between what NAACP President Ben Jealous said on Thursday and what he said earlier in the week. Damn inconvenient videos.
Politico reports his Thursday comments:
NAACP President Ben Jealous said Thursday that the resolution passed by the group on Wednesday does not call the tea party “racist.”
No?
A portion of the resolution does indeed characterize the behavior as “racist,” but Jealous said Thursday during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the resolution was not intended to condemn the entire movement as such.
“We aren’t saying that the tea party is racist,” Jealous said. “What we’re saying is that with their increasing power comes an increasing responsibility to act responsibly…and to call out when they see those things on those signs.”
And furthermore:
Asked if he thought members of the tea party are racially insensitive, Jealous responded: “No, not at all.”
Of course, this is a little hard to square with the video clip above in which Jealous says the Tea Party is a direct descendent of white supremacist groups.
But never let it be said that Jealous let truth get in the way of a good line of bullshit.
